"A GREAT CATHOLIC"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 12

"A GREAT CATHOLIC"

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

PR BSBYTEUIAN 'S TRIBUTE

ESTEEMED BY COMMUNITY

(I*nr Press Association.J DUNEDIN, last night. i PrinuiiJiil Dickie, moderator ol the Presbyterian Ueneral Assembly, paid the following tribute to Archbishop Ledwood : - , i "A personality like the late Archbishop itedwood does not belong to any section of Christendom, however widespread and venerable. It belongs to the cnui-ch universal. There were united in him the grace and culture of the Old World, the moral religious intensity of his church, and adaptability which, perhaps, is the most outstanding characteristic of These newer lands. An Englishman by birth, he came to -New Zea-' land as a child, received his higher education in. Fiance, became a professor in Ireland, and returned to New Zealand as Bishop of Wellington almost at the earliest age when, canonically, it was possible to be consecrated to the episcopate. "One of his first public utterances of which I took note was a generous reference to the friendliness of churches in the early days of our Dominion, It was a wonderful prescience which selected him for his high office. He was a great colonist, a great citizen and a great Catholic Bishop. lie saw his church grow from small beginnings to its present position and grew, with it, in the, affection and the csteehi of the community not only of his communion but the whole community.

"More and more as the years increased all the churches came to accord to him a large measure of the veneration with which he was regarded by his fellow Catholics. We felt that a. man so venerable by reason of years, character, and position, so vigorous, so steadfast, so able and so loyal to the truth as lie saw it was a strength and inspiration to all. He has died full of years and honor, having retained his wonderful powers of mind, body and soul right to the very end.

"It would be unbecoming to grieve over his passing, but we remember gratefully his long and honored life and hope that his church and all churches may, in the good providence of C!od, have leaders like him to keep the Faith and lay hold on Eternal Life."